A Malaysian Airline Boeing was shot down and crashed in Ukraine.

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Tragic....................................... :(

 

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Fuxk the missile.

Old man die of grief after daughter, son in law, two grandchildren lost in MH17.
Never tell old people such news. in singapore such news will be hidden from old people.

 

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/flight-mh17-vladimir-putins-daughter-3909500

Vladimir Putin’s daughter has fled her Dutch home as fury grows over Flight mH17.

Maria Putin lived just 20 miles from the airport where the doomed jet dpoarted from.

News that the Russian president's daughter was living among a nation of people still fuming over Russia’s role in the downing of Flight MH17 was only going to spark more outrage.

And once it became known the 29-year-old had a £2million apartment not far from the Dutch airport where the doomed jet left on its final, tragic journey, the angry protests quickly started.

There were demands for Maria to be deported and one Twitter user posted: “Its time you leave B*TCH.”

Another wrote: “Very convenient that Maria Putina lives so close to The Hague. Won’t have to go far to see her father’s trial.”

Maria and boyfriend Jorrit Faasen, 34, who lived in a riverside flat in Voorschoten on the outskirts of the Dutch capital, fled amid the mounting fury.

One resident said tonight: “We have not seen her here since the plane went down.

"She moved in last year and it was all kept quiet for a while. But once it became known who she was, there was certainly some disquiet. And now this has happened. She is obviously not responsible for her father’s actions but we don’t want *demonstrations around here.”

The neighbour spoke as 51 more of the 193 bodies recovered from the crash site in Ukraine were returned to Holland to join the 40 who arrived on Wednesday.

Many blame president Putin for the disaster, insisting Kremlin chiefs supplied the missile that blasted the Malaysia Airlines jet out of the sky at 30,000ft – killing 298 passengers and crew, including 10 Brits and 193 Dutch

 

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The Nederland tribute to victim of MH17 25mins
http://www.npo.nl/nos-journaal/23-07-2014/POW_00881800

 

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Special Nederland church service 1 hour , only for christians
http://www.npo.nl/verbonden-in-verdriet-een-uur-van-bezinning-en-gebed/23-07-2014/VPWON_1231853

 

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MH17 armed mission 'unrealistic' as Ukraine fighting kills 13

AFP
July 28, 2014, 2:48 am

Grabove (Ukraine) (AFP) - Dutch authorities probing the downing of Malaysian flight MH17 said Sunday it was "unrealistic" to send armed troops to secure the crash site, after 13 people including two children were killed in fierce fighting in insurgent-held east Ukraine.

The Netherlands and Australia had planned to send armed officers to ensure that investigators are able to carry out their work at the vast crash site. But Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte now said this is no longer viable.

"Getting the military upper hand for an international mission in this area is according to our conclusion not realistic," Rutte told journalists in The Hague, noting the presence of heavily armed separatists and the proximity of the border with Russia -- accused of backing the rebels.

Even an unarmed team of Dutch and Australian officers was forced to drop their plans to visit the site Sunday as heavy bombardments rocked towns close to the site, where some remains of the 298 victims from the plane still lie decomposing under the summer sun.

"There is fighting going on. We can't take the risk," said Alexander Hug, deputy chief monitor of the European security body OSCE's special mission in Ukraine.

"The security situation on the way to the site and on the site itself is unacceptable for our unarmed observer mission," he told reporters in the insurgent stronghold Donetsk, the biggest city in the region.

An AFP photographer heard artillery bombardments just a kilometre (half a mile) from the rebel-held town of Grabove, next to the crash site, and saw black smoke billowing into the sky.

Terrified local residents were fleeing and checkpoints controlled by separatist fighters were abandoned.

- 'Terrorists destroying evidence' -

Earlier, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott had said 49 officers from the Netherlands and Australia -- which together lost some 221 citizens in the crash -- were due at the scene Sunday and that there would be "considerably more on site in coming days".

That came after Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said he had reached an agreement with the pro-Russian insurgents controlling the site to allow the police deployment.

"I hope that this agreement... will ensure security on the ground, so the international investigators can conduct their work," Razak said, adding that 68 Malaysian police personnel would leave Kuala Lumpur for the crash site on Wednesday.

So far investigators have visited the site only sporadically because of security concerns, even though a truce had been called in the immediate area around the site by both the Kiev forces and pro-Russian separatists.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin claimed on Twitter that rebels were responsible for any violence close to the crash site.

Kiev is "committed to its unilateral cease-fire within 40km zone of MH17 site", and "terrorists (are) destroying evidence of the crime", the minister insisted.

- Alleged Grad rockets fire -

Fighting was raging elsewhere as the Ukrainian army pushes on with its offensive to retake the industrial east.

Local authorities reported at least 13 people including two children aged one and five killed on Sunday in fierce combat in rebel holdout Gorlivka, about 45 kilometres to the north of Donetsk, and which has a population of about a quarter of a million.

Ukraine's military accused insurgent fighters of firing unguided Grad rockets at residential blocks in the city "aiming to bring discredit to the Ukrainian army and frighten the non-combattants".

A rebel commander from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic told a press conference that the situation in Gorlivka was "fine for the moment".

The outskirts of mining hub Donetsk itself was also subject to intense bombardment throughout the night, some of it apparently Grad rocket fire.

The city of one million has been serving as a base for international monitors and journalists who are travelling daily to the crash site.

Ukraine's anti-terrorism office said a female Polish journalist working for pro-Kiev Espreso TV was seriously wounded in clashes the Lugansk region and evacuated to the government-held city of Kharkiv.

Ignoring safety warnings, an Australian couple had travelled to the crash site without any escort Saturday, saying they were fulfilling a promise to their only child that they would be there.

"She was full of life," said Angela Rudhart-Dyczynski of their 25-year-old daughter Fatima, an aerospace engineering student.

Dutch authorities have identified the first victim, after 227 coffins with remains inside were flown to the Netherlands for identification.

The insurgents said they have also handed over a sealed train carriage filled with victims' belongings to the Dutch.

- Brussels mulls more sanctions -

In Brussels, the European Union is drafting tougher sanctions against Russia -- which it accuses of abetting the insurgency by arming the rebels who allegedly shot down the aircraft.

Sanctions targeting economic sectors including an arms embargo are being considered, while on Tuesday the bloc is expected to unveil more names of individuals and entities sanctioned.

Moscow has blasted the move as "irresponsible", and warned that it jeopardised cooperation on security issues.

Meanwhile in Kiev, lawmakers are to meet next week to discuss Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk's future, after the premier quit in fury over the collapse of his coalition.

About 1,000 people -- including the victims of the Malaysian plane crash -- have been killed in the deadly insurgency, and the United Nations estimates that some 230,000 have fled their homes.

 

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MH17: Fighting delays AFP officers, experts access to Malaysia Airlines crash site in eastern Ukraine

ABC
July 28, 2014, 12:56 am

A team of unarmed federal police officers have been forced to delay their planned visit to the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash site in eastern Ukraine after the area was declared unsafe.

The Australian Federal Police officers are among a team of international experts in the region as part of the mission to secure the site and recover crash victims' remains.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott had said the Australian officers would join a Dutch contingent at the site from Sunday evening.

However, Alexander Hug, the deputy head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe's (OSCE) monitoring mission in Ukraine, says the local conflict has affected the start of the mission.

"We heard indications there's fighting going on. We can't take the risk," he said.

"The security situation on the way to the site and on the site itself is unacceptable for our unarmed observer mission.

"Fighting in the area will most likely affect [the] crash site."

In The Hague, Dutch authorities confirmed that their team would remain in Donetsk, a rebel stronghold about 60 kilometres from the crash site, rather than head to the impact zone.

"Because of fighting in the area, the situation is still too unstable to work at the crash site," the Dutch justice ministry said.

The plane was shot down over eastern Ukraine on July 17, killing 298 people including 38 Australian citizens and residents.

Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak had earlier said an agreement had been reached with separatists to give international police access to the site so investigations into the disaster could begin.

A statement issued by Mr Razak's office said the agreement with separatist leader Aleksander Borodai would "provide protection for international crash investigators" to recover human remains and ascertain the cause of the crash.

Ukrainian forces have been pressing their military campaign against pro-Russian separatists, with shelling and explosions heard around Donetsk on Saturday.

However, Ukraine's foreign minister Pavlo Klimkin said it was rebels who had prevented the international team from reaching the crash site.

"Terrorists back to their normal outrageous practice: they don't allow OSCE monitors to access the #MH17 site claiming Ukraine army is fighting nearby," Mr Klimkin said on Twitter.

"Their argument is fake. Ukraine is committed to its unilateral ceasefire within a 40 km zone."
'Risky' mission necessary to 'do the right thing' by grieving families

On Sunday afternoon the Prime Minister said the AFP officers will work as part of a Dutch-led humanitarian mission to recover remains, seek to remove wreckage and help investigators.

"Our objective is to get in, to get cracking, and to get out," he told a press conference.

"We will stay as long as we can to do a professional job, but we won't stay a moment longer than we need to.

"Our whole and sole purpose is to claim our dead and bring them home as quickly as we can and that is what this next phase of operation bring them home is all about."

There will be a total of 49 police on site, 11 of whom will be Australian, although that number is expected to increase over the coming days.

Mr Abbott has acknowledged it is a "risky" move but says his advice is that it is safer for the police not to be armed.

"Frankly, we need to be prepared to take some risks in order to do the right thing by our dead and by their grieving families," he said.

"But we want to minimise risk, we want to mitigate against risk, and the overwhelming advice ... is that the best way to do that is through that unarmed, police-led humanitarian mission."

Police say the mission will be subject to daily security assessments.

Mr Abbott says he would be "very surprised" if the operation takes longer than a few weeks.

"The point I want to make is that there is tremendous goodwill from everyone involved," he said.

"I think there is near universal acknowledgement that an atrocity has taken place... and that whatever the reasons, whatever the rights and wrongs, that we owe it to the dead and to the grieving families to do what we can to get the remains home as soon as possible."

A total of 49 AFP officers have already flown to Kharkiv in readiness to help secure the crash site.
Australian parents in emotional visit to crash site

An Australian couple who lost their daughter on the downed plane earlier became the first relatives of victims to visit the scene.

Jerzy Dyczynski and Angela Rudhart-Dyczynski's 25-year-old daughter Fatima was on board MH17.

Ms Rudhart-Dyczynski said her daughter, an aerospace engineering student, used to want to be a pilot and had been "full of life".

Mr Dyczynski wore a white T-shirt with a picture of Fatima, who was making her way to Australia on the doomed flight to see her parents.

Authorities had warned the Perth couple not to travel to eastern Ukraine, fearing they could get caught up in the ongoing conflict between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces.

Pro-Russian rebels have continually caused problems during the investigation, blocking access to the site and harassing recovery workers.

The couple had first travelled to the Netherlands to provide medical and DNA samples to Dutch investigators examining human remains flown over from the site.

Forensic experts have identified the first of the victims from the plane as a Dutch citizen.

The Dutch justice ministry has not publicly released the identity of the victim, but said their family and the mayor of where they lived had been informed.

A total of 227 coffins with the remains of people of 17 nationalities have been flown to the Netherlands for formal identification.

 

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Raadslid: Malaysia Airlines is crimineel

ALPHEN AAN DEN RIJN -
Het Alphens gemeenteraadslid Robert Jan Blom (Nieuw Elan) noemt Malaysia Airlines 'crimineel'. Blom vindt dat de Nederlandse regering de vliegtuigmaatschappij moet aanklagen voor moord.

Dat laat het raadslid weten via Twitter. Woest schrijft hij: ''Onze regering moet vliegmaatschappij wegens moord aanklagen.'' En: Maatschappijen die bewust over oorlogsgebied vliegen, zijn criminelen.''

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The Alphens councilor Robert Jan Blom (New Elan) calls on Malaysia Airlines 'criminal'. Blom believes that the Dutch government should sue for murder. The airline
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That leaves the councilor know via Twitter. Fierce he writes:'' Our government should sue airline murder'' And:. Companies who deliberately flying over war zones, are criminals.''

 

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Van een onzer verslaggevers
AMSTELVEEN -
Tot in elk geval anderhalf à twee uur na de neergehaalde vlucht MH17 is er nog over hetzelfde gebied gevlogen. Voorbeelden zijn de vluchten SQ305 Londen-Singapore en KL871 Amsterdam-Delhi. Beide vliegtuigen vlogen dezelfde route als MH17.

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From one of our reporters
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Until at least half to two hours after the downed flight MH17 there is flown over the same area. Examples are the flights SQ305 London-Singapore and KL871 Amsterdam-Delhi. Both aircraft were flying the same route as MH17.


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according to dutch reporters, singapore airlines London Heathrow to Singapore flight SQ305 777-300 flew over the same route as MH17 after 1.5-2 hours of MH17 disaster. At that time Ukraine pro EU air traffic controllers knew MH17 was missing. Yet they keep sending passengers into war zone.

 

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Some MH17 victims may 'never be found'

AFP
July 29, 2014, 1:51 am

The Hague (AFP) - All remains of the 298 people who died on downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in rebel-held east Ukraine may never be recovered, Dutch police chief Gerard Bouman said on Monday.

"I would love to give a guarantee that all the remains will come back, and all possessions, but... I believe the chances are not very good that we will get it all," he said in a briefing to parliament in The Hague.

Bouman said all next-of-kin had been made aware of the situation, adding it was not even clear how many bodies remained unaccounted for.

"What we found in the body bags in Ukraine was indescribable. The contents were horrible, hardened people whose work this is are finding it hard to process. Bits and pieces all mixed, big and small, were found in the bags," he said.

A team of unarmed Dutch and Australian investigators were forced by heavy fighting on Monday to abandon yet another attempt to reach the crash site.

Rebels fighting in eastern Ukraine had said on Sunday that a train carriage filled with personal belongings of the victims had been handed over to Dutch officials.

But Dutch justice ministry spokesman Lodewijk Hekking told AFP on Monday that no handover had taken place and only a few items were in official hands so far.

"Last Friday two investigators were on the site, where they collected a handful of personal belongings -- passports and other small items -- which they took with them," he told AFP.

 

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Rebels claim Kiev now controls part of MH17 site

AFP
July 29, 2014, 5:06 am

Shakhtarsk (Ukraine) (AFP) - Ukraine's army on Monday seized control of part of the vast site where Malaysian airliner MH17 crashed, insurgents said, as the United Nations announced the downing of the plane could constitute a war crime.

After explosions and fighting blocked a new attempt by Dutch and Australian police to access the east Ukraine crash site, Kiev confirmed that its troops had now entered a string of towns around the scene, including Shakhtarsk, 10 kilometres (six miles) away.

The unarmed international mission was forced to turn back for the second day running before reaching the site, where the remains of some of the 298 victims still lie since the July 17 disaster.

Dutch investigators leading the probe said it was now likely that some of these remains may never be recovered.

"I would love to give a guarantee that all the remains will come back, and all possessions, but... I believe the chances are not very good that we will get it all," Dutch police chief Gerard Bouman told parliament in The Hague.

More than 1,100 people have been killed in the fighting engulfing east Ukraine over the past three months, the United Nations said, a toll that does not include the plane crash victims.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay condemned the "horrendous shooting down" of the Malaysian passenger jet in what was then rebel-held territory on July 17, and demanded a "thorough, effective, independent and impartial investigation".

"This violation of international law, given the prevailing circumstances, may amount to a war crime," she said.

The Red Cross has said Ukraine is now in civil war -- a classification that would make parties in the conflict liable to prosecution for war crimes.

Western powers, which has accused Moscow of fanning the rebellion by supplying it with weapons including the missile system allegedly used to shot down MH17, urged new sanctions against Russia.

Data from the plane's black boxes analysed as a part of a Dutch-led probe showed that the crash was caused by shrapnel from a rocket explosion, Kiev said.

But on the ground, investigators have made little headway into gathering evidence because of the intensifying fighting around the crash site.

- 'Let's go!' -

An AFP reporter in Shakhtarsk said artillery fire could be heard in the town and plumes of black smoke billowed into the sky, while a car was seen driving away with the sign "children" written in red on its front and back.

A couple was also seen leaving the town on foot with a young boy, as the woman shouted: "Let's go! Let's go!"

If Kiev manages to cement its latest gains, it could cut off access to main rebel bastion Donetsk from Russia, which stands accused by the West of funnelling arms to the insurgents.

The rebels did not specify which part of the crash site is now back under Kiev control and there is no confirmation from Ukrainian officials.

Andriy Lysenko, Ukraine's military spokesman, claimed that troops were not carrying out any fighting but that "we would occupy (the crash site) once the rebels withdraw".

Rebels signalled they were in no mood for retreat.

The top rebel military commander of the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic", Igor Strelkov, told a press conference: "We are planning to restore the connection between Shakhtarsk and Torez this evening. Our fighters are there now on the attack."

The escalating fighting has led authorities in The Netherlands -- which lost 193 citizens in the crash -- to conclude that it was unrealistic to send an armed mission to secure the site as troops risked getting dragged into the conflict.

Both sides in Ukraine's war have traded blame over who is responsible for the chaos around the site, with Kiev accusing the rebels of "destroying evidence" and the insurgents saying army shelling was devastating parts of the site where the plane wreckage is located.

Washington released new photographs to bolster its claim that Russia was now taking a direct role in the conflict by firing into Ukraine, targeting the armed forces.

Meanwhile, Russia said international monitors would visit its side of the volatile border over the next few days after accusing the United States of "hindering" their work on the ground.

- 'Both sides using heavy arms' -

Farther away from the MH17 site, fighting continued as Kiev pressed on with its offensive to retake the industrial east.

Local authorities said three civilians were killed and five injured in Donetsk, a city of one million, which has been serving as a base for international monitors and journalists who are travelling regularly to the crash site some 60 kilometres away.

The military said it is also massing troops around key rebel base Gorlivka, 45 kilometres north of Donetsk, "in preparation for liberating it", a day after fighting there claimed 13 lives.

Local authorities in the second main rebel city of Lugansk said that five civilians were killed and 15 injured due to "constant firing" over the past 24 hours.

Amid the fighting, Pillay warned that both sides were "employing heavy weaponry in built-up areas, including artillery, tanks, rockets and missiles".

"Both sides must take great care to prevent more civilians from being killed or injured," the UN high commissioner said, sounding the warning even as Kiev claimed that rebels on Monday fired unguided Grad rockets at residential buildings in Shakhtarsk.

 

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Downing of flight MH17 ‘may amount to a war crime’: UN

Dutch and Australian forensic investigators on their way to the MH17 crash site turned back on Monday after “explosions” heard in the area

PUBLISHED : Monday, 28 July, 2014, 5:20pm
UPDATED : Monday, 28 July, 2014, 7:51pm

Agence France-Presse in Kiev

Fiona Frazer, Deputy Head of the UN)Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, speaks, flanked by mission head Armen Harutyunyan, during a press conference in the Ukraine Crisis Media Centre in Kiev. Photo: AFP

The downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 “may amount to a war crime”, the UN said on Monday, adding that fighting in east Ukraine has claimed over 1,100 lives with both government and rebel forces using heavy weaponry in built-up areas.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay condemned the “horrendous shooting down” of the Malaysian passenger jet in rebel-held territory that killed all 298 people on board, and demanded a “thorough, effective, independent and impartial investigation”.

“This violation of international law, given the prevailing circumstances, may amount to a war crime,” she said in a statement.

“Every effort will be made to ensure that anyone committing serious violations of international law including war crimes will be brought to justice, no matter who they are,” Pillay said.

The Red Cross officially said last week that Ukraine is now in civil war – a classification that would make parties in the conflict liable to prosecution for war crimes.

The UN said that latest figures showed that more than 1,100 people have been killed in fighting on the ground in east Ukraine as both government forces and rebels have increasingly used heavy weapons in built-up areas.

“As of 26 July, at least 1,129 people have been killed and 3,442 wounded,” the UN statement said.

The latest toll marks a sharp rise from that given a month ago on June 18, when the UN said at least 356 people had been killed since April.

Pillay described reports of increasingly intense fighting in rebel bastions Donetsk and Lugansk regions as “extremely alarming” and said both sides were “employing heavy weaponry in built-up areas, including artillery, tanks, rockets and missiles.”

“Both sides must take great care to prevent more civilians from being killed or injured,” Pillay said.

Hearses carrying the coffins with the remains of the victims of the Malaysian Airlines MH17 plane crash leave Eindhoven military airport. Photo: AFP

Some 100,000 people have now fled the conflict zone in the east for other areas of Ukraine, the UN said in the report released on Monday.

The report also accused rebels controlling swathes of territory of conducting a brutal “reign of terror” in the areas they control, including the abduction, torture and killing of civilians as the rule of law has collapsed.

“These groups have taken control of Ukrainian territory and inflicted on the populations a reign of intimidation and terror to maintain their position of control,” the report said.

Investigators turn back from crash site as blasts heard

Dutch and Australian forensic investigators on their way to the MH17 crash site turned back on Monday after “explosions” in the area, a government spokeswoman in The Hague said.

“They have returned in the direction of Donetsk,” justice ministry spokeswoman Sentina van der Meer said. “Explosions were heard, and they were warned by the locals.”

The Ukrainian military earlier said its forces were battling pro-Russian rebels for control of several eastern Ukrainian towns around the crash site of the downed Malaysia Airlines plane.

Ukrainian troops “had entered” the towns of Shakhtarsk and Torez and “battles were continuing for the complete liberation” of the towns of Pervomaysk and Snizhne, the press office for the military operation against the insurgents said.

A joint Dutch and Australian forensics team had left from rebel stronghold Donetsk early Monday in a fresh bid to reach the crash site, where some remains of victims remain exposed to the elements.

A visit Sunday was cancelled after heavy bombardments rocked towns nearby.

 

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MH17 black boxes show crash caused by rocket shrapnel

AFP
July 29, 2014, 12:18 am

Kiev (AFP) - Black boxes recovered from downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in rebel-held east Ukraine show shrapnel from a rocket explosion caused the passenger jet to crash, a Ukrainian security official said Monday.

International investigators "indicated that data from flight recorders show that the reason for the destruction and crash of the plane was massive explosive decompression arising from multiple shrapnel perforations from a rocket explosion," Andriy Lysenko, spokesman for Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, said.

Data from the doomed airliner's black boxes was decrypted in Britain after being handed over to Malaysian officials by pro-Russian rebels controlling the crash site of MH17.

Investigators leading the probe in the Netherlands -- which lost 193 citizens on the doomed jet -- refused to confirm the latest information from Kiev, saying that they were "waiting to get a more complete idea of what happened."

Kiev and its Western allies have accused insurgents of shooting down the plane, killing all 298 people on board.

 

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Ukrainian troops advance on flight MH17 crash site amid fight with rebels

PUBLISHED : Monday, 28 July, 2014, 11:26pm
UPDATED : Tuesday, 29 July, 2014, 11:53am

Reuters in Kiev and Donetsk

Members of the Dutch and Australian investigation teams (above) tried to reach the crash site but were forced back to Donetsk for "security reasons". Photo: EPA

Ukraine said its troops had taken more territory from pro-Russian rebels near the site where Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was brought down. International investigators said fighting had again prevented them reaching the crash location.

The separatists are still in control of the area where the plane was shot down but fighting in the surrounding countryside has been heavy as government forces try to drive them out.

"The Ukrainians have taken over a part of the crash site," said Vladimir Antyufeyev, the self-styled first deputy prime minister of the Donetsk People's Republic.

Ukrainian officials said two rebel-held towns had been recaptured and attempts were being made to take a village Kiev says is near the launch site of the surface-to-air missile that shot down the airliner with the loss of all 298 on board.

Watch: Fighting stops international team reaching Ukraine crash site

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said increasingly intense fighting in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions was extremely alarming and that the shooting down of the Malaysian plane on July 17 may amount to a war crime.

The site of the crash of the Malaysian plane has yet to be secured or thoroughly investigated, more than 10 days after the crash.

No full forensic sweep has been conducted to ensure all human remains have been collected. Both side accuse the other of using fighting to prevent the investigation.

Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov blamed Ukrainian military action, saying that a buffer zone announced by Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko had not been honored.

"The reality is Ukrainian authorities have to stop their fighting and respect the resolution of the UN Security Council and provide full access to the crash site," Lavrov said, adding that Russia wanted investigators to "find out the truth".

"The first priority is that the investigation will be impartial," he said.

The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe said its monitors attempting to reach the crash site with investigators from Australia and the Netherlands were forced to return to Donetsk for "security reasons".

Antyufeyev, the rebel leader, said in Donetsk that separatist fighters escorting the international experts to the site encountered fighting and turned back.

Antyufeyev, who like most of the senior rebel leadership is from Russia, also blamed the Ukrainian army for trying to destroy evidence at the crash site under cover of fighting.

In Kiev, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, whose country lost 28 nationals in the crash, said she would discuss access with Ukrainian authorities.

"We'll be seeking assurances that any military action doesn't compromise our humanitarian mission," Bishop said.